Vulnerability · Published Oct 15, 2025 · Assigned by eclipse

CVE-2025-55079Missing check for thread priority

Medium 5.7

In plain English

A medium-severity resource allocation without limits in ThreadX from Eclipse Foundation. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 7% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)5.7Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 92.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In Eclipse ThreadX before version 6.4.3, the thread module has a setting of maximum priority. In some cases the check of that maximum priority wasn't performed, allowing, as a result, to obtain a thread with higher priority than expected and causing a possible denial of service.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Eclipse Foundation ThreadX 0 – before 6.4.3

Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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